Nordic Equality and Anti-Discrimination Laws in the Throes of Change - Legal developments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index – but have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model’s systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations does the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural and social change, and as a corrective to laws, policies and practices that uphold existing inequalities, and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2024
Editors:	Anne Hellum • Ingunn Ikdahl • Vibeke Strand • Eva-Maria Svensson
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-200125-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-03-200125-9
Barcode:	9781032001258

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